[KLUG Members] remove a directory from subversion repository

[Dirk H Bartley]

I may be misunderstanding the problem. 

Try this: first move the files you do not want in the repos from your
local copy of the repos to a temp location.  Then remove the directory
from the repos with svn remove.  Then replace the directory from the
temp location removing all things under .svn (find ./ | grep svn).  Then
when you commit it will want to add but you don't want it to so use
proset without the full path.

let's say you have a repository called fame with a subdirectory called
techie.

cd fame
mv techie /tmp
svn remove techie
svn commit techie
mv /tmp/techie ./
rm -Rf `find ./techie | grep "\.svn"`
cd ..
svn propset svn:ignore techie fame
svn commit
svn status

Dirk


On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 08:14, rick wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 13:32, Dirk H Bartley wrote:
> > I'd link to my presentation but the ftp server is down still.  grrrrr.   
> > 
> > Remove the files from the directory then. 
> > 
> > svn propset svn:ignore "ignorefileordirname" underdirectory 
> > 
> > This property will make it so that the svn client will ignore the
> > directory anytime "svn status" or other svn commands are executed. 
> > 
> > Dirk 
> This is not working for me. If I do a svn proplist in the directory I
> want to ignore the svn:ignore is set in the list. However, when I do a
> new checkout of the project from another machine it still  tries to get
> this directory. I have several large backup files in there I don't want
> to get on each machine. Am I doing something wrong here? 
> 
> The directory is called techie and it is in /var/www/fame 
> 
> I did:
> svn propset svn:ignore techie /var/www/fame
> and got back
> property 'svn:ignore' set on '/var/www/fame/techie' 
> 
> I then committed the changes. Yet for some reason a new checkout is
> still trying to get this directory and this directory is listed in svn
> list. 
> 
> How can I remove a directory from svn list? 
> 
> Thanks for the help. 
> 
> Rick
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